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My Mother's Spear is a sapphic romance set in Iron Age Scotland during the 2nd century CE. Cynna is a Sarmatian horse archer with no hope or future, who fights for an empire she despises. Meala is a Caledonian warrior who carries her mother's spear and father's shield into battle to fight for her people, claim her warrior birthright, and escape her parents' will that she marry a man. These two brave women will meet upon the field of battle, where they will find themselves, each other, and learn who their true enemy is. Ishtar Watson brings the ancient world of Iron Age Scotland alive through the eyes of two women fighting to find their places in the world while they struggle against Roman steel, a dangerous bounty hunter, and their own inner turmoil. But can they escape the might of Rome and their own traumatic pasts? Well researched and thoughtfully written, My Mother's Spear is set in 160 CE in what is now southern Scotland along Antonine's Wall. This isn't your usual romance novel.

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Ishtar Watson (she/they) is a professional computer scientist with an academic background in both computer science and archaeology. Her archaeological focus is on portraying the Stone Age and ancient history through media for educational and scientific outreach purposes, and the use of EDXRF (Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy) to determine the chemical composition of artifacts. Ishtar has worked in the field and the lab as an archaeology student and hopes to continue her advanced education in the field of archaeology. Ishtar experiences Autism, ADHD, PTSD, CPTSD, Tourette's Syndrome, Dyslexia, and Misophonia.Ishtar lives on the east coast of the United States with her super-smart spouse and a handful of cats. She has written several adventure-romance novels, short stories, and novellas set in the Stone Age, all of which feature LGBTQIA+ characters. Her hobbies include archaeology, especially Neolithic clothing and adornment, astrophotography, model rocketry, weaving and spinning Stone Age textiles, nuclear physics (specifically gamma spectroscopy), mineralogy, archery, Dungeons and Dragons, sapphic poetry, and writing.Thank you for purchasing an independently published literary work. Writing, editing, and publishing a novel entirely by oneself is quite a lot of work (especially when the author has dyslexia). I appreciate you as the reader - you are why I write. Please consider leaving a review and rating, as this is the most important thing you can do for any author. Words cannot express how much a review means to an author.

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